Your boy is laid up with sciatica this week, so it’s Sergey Time as FNY’s correspondent checks in with some Bronx Art Deco buildings. By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent HAVING…
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In 1901, the Scottish philanthropist/industrialist Andrew Carnegie Foundation gave $5.2 million to New York City for its libraries across the five boroughs. This started a remarkable project that would go…
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IT’S been donkey’s years since I’ve done an in-depth look at the lamps I call The Williamsburgs, or The Willies for short. They are colored blue (no other NYC lamppost…
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IT’S been a few years (April 2021) since I have been in one of my favorite joints, Millard Fillmore’s on 65th Avenue and 166th Street near Queens College. It’s a…
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FLATBUSH Avenue cuts across the Park Slope grid on a diagonal, making it a convenient place to put a subway line and indeed, two separate subway lines employ it, the…
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Continued from Part One On Sunday, March 17, 2024 I meandered around the Gowanus area and wound up walking the length of Nevins Street, which runs from Carroll Street to Flatbush Avenue…
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ELIOT Avenue, seen here at Lutheran Avenue and 75th Street, roars through Middle Village as one of the few continuous auto northeast routes through the neighborhood. It connects Metropolitan Avenue…
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THIS grouping of attached two-story residences found on 59th Drive between Fresh Pond Road and 64th Street, opposite the Rieff Playground, was built as workers’ houses of the Sampson’s Oil…
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OVER the past decade or so, a new variant on the Bell lamp fixture theme has been popping up on Brooklyn streets. I haven’t noticed them yet in any other…
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WAY back in 2011 I walked Union Street all the way from the waterfront in Carroll Gardens to Prospect Park; I haven’t yet made my way to where Union Street…
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SATURDAY, April 13, 2024 wasn’t a banner day for Forgotten NY, as I had planned an expedition to Howard Beach. The Q53 crawled along despite a dedicated bus lane on…
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On Sunday, March 17, 2024 I meandered around the Gowanus area and wound up walking the length of Nevins Street, which runs from Carroll Street to Flatbush Avenue in the…